Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-03
COLLISION,

In which . Freight Crashes into . Pass.
z Train "A Conductor Shot
Through the Cupols and His Nose
s~msshsd-Hon. Sam Word. Receives
Painful Wcunds-Providential Escape
OF the Other Passengers.
The news OF the accident ON the Montana
Union yesterday morning vas followed up
bv q representative OF TIE MINER, who
reached the spot before the wreck was
cleared, and gained the following particu.
liars: The passenger train No. l.. which
left Butte station at 1920. was tagged and
stopped. q short distance this side OF
Rocker, BY an ore train that wasin trouble
ahead. The Utah & Northern freight that
left fifteen minutes later was properly
fla eyed, but could not be stopped, and the
engine crashed into the Anaconda coach
+. the rear OF NJ. /. There were two men
in the rear coach. and in the Other there
were about two dozen passengers including
several ladies and children. Mr.. George
Haldorn was sitting opposite u vacant
seat. whom Hon. Sam Word chme along
and s~+luting Mr.. Haldorn with How L.
the eminent ba rrister?" Was seating him
SELF opposite the latter. with his back t.
the engine, when
TBE CRASH CAME.
VT. Word YVES thrown violently upon Mr.
Haldorn striking his face on top Of tn.
Iatter's head, and damaging his plugh hat.
Mr.. Word bad M eye so badly bruised
| that it soon closed up completely. and -
| splinter from the seat, which was broken
| nv the copcussiOp, ran into his cheek, mar.
r',wtv missing his eye. His face Was other
| wise cut, and he afterwards complained o
| OF pains in his chest. Mr.. HaDdOrn wal
"niniured. A little child was calmly f'eap'
ing on a seat near by. and so sound " .r'
ite slumbers that it WAS q Awakened by
the shock. A Young lady who was lying
back asleep on one OF the seats was throw
forward. striking her forehead against thu
back OF tho next seat, but Sustained NJ
injury further than u violent headache
No others in that car were injured, thougt
the ladies were greatly. frishtene,. and on.
of them went into Mysteries. Just befor'
the col ision Conductor West passrc
through from the front into the rea c"ach
BE saw the engine oi the freight coming anf
shouted to the two passengers in that Gu
run, BOYS, RUM"
They did run, and all three reached tn
rear platiorm of the second coach Just il
time. One OF the men was thrown heel,
over head down tic embankment. but tn
other two h-ld their footing N the plat
form, and none were hurt. CO"ducto
Mintie, Of the freight, waa not \" fortunate
He WIS sitting in The cupola Of the cabno-'
and the shock shut him out through tn
window on to t. roof, eaking his nos+
The brakeman had tss skin peeled of hi
forehead. and E gineer Frost. who save
his life by jumy,ing of the engine. %iriure'
his spine and sprained his ank'eindo; 6 az
The engine crashed more than hall wa,
through the coach without breaking a win
dow. The r. ar trucks OF the coach wer
knocked out on one side 81 the track, enc
lie there, completely reversed. The ca
stove was perched on top Of the engine
The engine and ear were
so CLOSELY IN~TERLocKED
that all efforts to separate them were fruit
esr.and they were aiterward run back 10th
yard, maintsi ninR their fond embrace. A ligh
engine, in charge o. Charley d. Camp, wa
sent Immediately to the scene. with Supe,
intendent DickensOn on board. 1t Wa
kept from crashing into tn. rear vi til
freight. with great d tficulry, ar,
it did strike the caboo<e ~ltl
such force as to smash the drawbar ID,
Murray dressed the wounds of Conductu
Mintie. ard Hon. Sam Words injuries wer
fixed up with diachyl"n plaster, 70 that h
was able to proceed to Helena with the
a ssenger train when the wreck was clea red
Mr.. Haldorn went down to Warm Springs
and returned Iast evening. The ore train
that caused oil the trouble was in charg
of c, nductor Stewart Russell. l. hnt
broken in two below Rocker, and tn
front half, being provided with auto
matte breaks, stoppsd so quickly that ,h'
rear section ran into it, wi,ho ". however
CD using any smash. Mr.. Haldorn is no.
satisfied that b head is harder thar th'
Hon. Sam fiWord's cheek, having practi
caly demonstrated the fact. Supetiu
tendent Dickinson estimates the damage t.
the engine at 500, and to the coach a
il responsible ;or the accident.